Many companies and organisations appear keen to support a more diverse workforce, where minority group members are made to feel welcome. One strategy involves creating special "spaces" at work, physical or otherwise, where ...
Social Sciences
Jan 11, 2019
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Nearly half of firms run by ethnic minority entrepreneurs have experienced an "existential crisis" threatening their survival in the past five years, a major new survey of London firms has revealed.
Economics & Business
Dec 12, 2018
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A new study shows most Americans underestimate just how concerned minorities and lower-income people are about environmental threats, including members of those groups.
Social Sciences
Oct 29, 2018
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One of Britain's leading astrophysicists is donating her $3 million purse from a major science prize to encourage diversity in physics.
Other
Sep 6, 2018
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Current inequities in access to Denver's parks that are found among the city's minorities and low-income residents are the legacy of exclusionary local and state zoning codes, and funding policies that favored investment ...
Social Sciences
Sep 4, 2018
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Discrimination against ethnic minorities on the housing market is declining—in Germany and other Western European countries and in the USA. But a new meta-study shows that applicants' surnames still influence the selection ...
Social Sciences
Jul 19, 2018
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Ethnic minority entrepreneurs in Scotland need more engagement and support from the government and key industry partners to start and grow successful businesses, according to research by the University of Strathclyde.
Social Sciences
Jun 11, 2018
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193 million acres throughout the United States—are a national treasure intended for use by everyone. But a new study by San Francisco State University Professor of Recreation, Parks & Tourism Nina Roberts and the U.S. Forest ...
Environment
May 31, 2018
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Failing to match the educational achievements of one's parents can be as distressing for men as having ethnic minority status or being divorced, new research says.
Social Sciences
Apr 10, 2018
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Early adolescents' grades were higher when they socialized with peers from other ethnicities, according to the findings of a University of California, Davis, study that looked at the lunching habits of more than 800 sixth-graders ...
Social Sciences
Sep 11, 2017
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